Taste is a matter of ignorance. If you know what you are tasting, you don't have to taste.

The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.

A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.

You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.

We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

The cleanest civilization I’ve ever seen…and the number one thing you pack for a wedding is a jar of dirt?

Their every instinct - and I have to say this is without exception - is to iron out the bumps, and It's always the bumps that are the most interesting stuff.

Most of the time I meet my trainer at the gym and we do a lot of everything: weights circuit with cardio, football drills, sprinting with weights on the treadmill.

The desire to see Okinawa returned to Japan developed into a broad national consensus among our people.

I've always been a caretaker; I think a lot of women are. We take care of everybody else first, and very rarely do we think about ourselves.

Teenagers think they are invincible

A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world.

The great thing about change, is that it absolutely, positively, always means things are going to get even better. Even when you don't know how.

So while it seemed like you were seeing everything, you really weren't. Just bits and pieces that looked like a whole.

A witty quote proves nothing.